Mary is wife of Les Kaye,
abbot of Kannondo. Mary and Les ran
the Los Altos Haiku Zendo and lived there toward the end of Shunryu
Suzuki's life. The following was told to me by Mary and Les in their
kitchen.

Les: When Suzuki Roshi came to Los Altos to give his talks, after zazen
and his talk and he'd always want to talk to my wife in the kitchen and
she said oh he'd just ask how I was doing and we'd say hello and we were
both into bonsai.

Mary:

Once we were at Tassajara and I told him I had found a new seedling to
make a bonsai with and it was planted in a small dish and we went outside
and I showed it to him and he said, "Thank you," and took it off to his
cabin.

And I do remember that once when we were at Tassajara he was sitting next
to me at a meal in the dinning room and I was drinking a coca-cola and he
just leaned over and took a big sip out of it.